"!"

The peacefulness of the traveling carriage was broken by Rin's cry of surprise as a shower of scroll rained on her.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Throwing the scrolls off her, Rin yelled at Seiga.

"Your script." The youth replied monotonously as he picks up another empty parchment beside him and continues writing some more. "We're going to be getting rid of the carriage and traveling on foot starting tomorrow. The village is a day walk away. I want you to memorize these before tomorrow so you know how to act properly."

"I don't need you telling me what to do."

"I won't have this mission fail because of your mistakes."

"As much as I hate this, I know what I'm doing bastard."

"Oh?" Seiga raised an eyebrow at her. "Are you telling me you can act out a proper wife?"

"What makes you think I can't?"

"Really? Then tell me. What is the first thing a wife should say to her husband when he returns home?"

"You reek of perfume and booze. Go take a bath." Rin replied matter of factly.

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"Denied. I want all of these read and memorized by tomorrow. No excuses." Seiga said curtly and continues writing more scrolls.

"What?! Why?!"

Seiga sighed. "Why do you think that's something normal to say to your husband?"

"But that's what I tell my brothers and father every night when they get home."

Seiga shook his head. "I thought it was bad, but I didn't think it was this bad." He muttered. "Remind me to double those scroll instructions."

Rin grumbled "You can't expect me to memorize all these scripts. Are you planning out a years worth or something?"

"Oh don't worry. Only one of the scroll is the script. The other 25 are rules for you to follow. See? I even took the time to label them for you." Seiga pointed at one of the scroll in Rin's hand without looking up.

"Huh? Rule number 4?"

Curious, Rin rolled open the parchment.

"Rule number 4: You are to always address your husband as dear, husband, or master. No name calling."

Rin's eyes twitched. "You can't be serious."

"Trust me. Calling me jerk, bastard, or other descriptive names will not convince people that we are a couple"

"I prefer those titles for you though." Rin said under her breath.

"Just follow these rules and you'll be fine."

"If the this rule is creepy enough, I can't imagine what the other 24 looks like. You'd be crazy if you think I'm going to follow all of them."

"Actually, it's 50. I'm working on the other 25 right now."

"You!" The anger Rin was trying so good to hold down threaten to bubble up.

Seiga sighed and put down the brush in his hand as if in defeat. "Fine, fine. If you don't want to follow all of them. How about we make a compromise. You only follow one of my rules and I'll let you off with the rest."

"Fine." Rin bit out.

"Then just strictly follow rule number one. We can leave the rest out." Seiga said, picking up that scroll and dropped it in Rin's hand.

Still suspicious at how Seiga's letting her off so easy, Rin carefully opened the scroll and took a look. Taking a look at the content, the hand gripping the scroll shook in anger.

"Go to hell Riku." She said darkly and chucked the scroll at him.

Seiga manage to catch the scroll and smirked at her.

"What's wrong? Can't even follow one simple rule? And here I made it easy for you."

"And how..." Rin's voice went up another octave "is [Your husband's orders are absolute. You shall attend to and obey him without question.] easy to follow you bastard!"

"Like I said, if you only follow this rule, we should have no problem working together."

"In your dreams! Why don't you write a rule for me to worship you while you're at it!"

"Oh. Good idea. That'll be your rule number 39 then." Seiga grinned.

"RIKU SEIGA!"